Go Beyond™

Join Raise the Grade, an educational program of Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, supported by RBC Future Launch. In our Raise the Grade technology centres, we will help you discover your interests, shape your career goals, and plan for your future.

Get Online.

The Raise the Grade website gives you access to many links and tools to help you explore your interests.

If you are a program participant, the community site will also assist you in learning about the kinds of careers that match what you already love to do or what you may discover you love to do through the program.

The Raise the Grade technology centre provides you with a designated room containing computers, high-speed Internet access, hardware and software to best support your learning and interests.

More youth having fun

At Toronto Kiwanis RTG Technology Centre

Get Ahead.

Participating in Raise the Grade will help prepare you with skills to make the transition from high school to Post-Secondary Education. The unique experiences that you’ll get in the program will strengthen your confidence in yourself to succeed. Bring on life after high school! You’ve got this!

Angi Eddy can’t say enough about the impact of Raise the Grade in her community.

“I have been able to help a teen who dropped out of high school get back into classes,” explains the Education Supervisor of the Boys & Girls Club Services of Greater Victoria.

“I watched a young mother defy all the expectations she had for herself and apply to college. A youth who failed all her classes last year recently showed me a report card that is honour roll-worthy. And the program has been running for less than 6 months!”

Angi works at the brand new Central Saanich Club facility, which serves a large population of youth from the Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tseycum and Tsawout First Nations. The community identified a need for the kind of academic support and mentoring that Raise the Grade (RTG) offers young people.

Realizing the new facility wouldn’t be completed until January, Angi took the initiative to start running RTG sessions at a local coffee shop, bringing laptops and tablets and meeting with youth a few times a week.

“It’s amazing to see the kids discover education and career opportunities they had never considered or even thought possible,” says Angi. “Often the youth haven’t been told that they can succeed in school and it’s a privilege to support and celebrate them.”

With the grand opening of the Club’s Raise the Grade Tech Centre, young people now have a dedicated space where they can go after school. They’re getting help with their homework and connecting with mentors and other youth as they increase their digital literacy and make plans for their post-secondary future.

Angi is amazed by how quickly a community of youth has developed around the program.

“It’s inspiring to see kids with different backgrounds having organic, youth-led conversations about issues that matter to them. We are seeing stellar role modeling and relationships develop between the older and younger participants.”

The Tech Centre is now regularly filled to capacity and Angi believes this is due in part to making educational technology available to youth who don’t have easy access to computers or the Internet.

“Raise the Grade is such an opportunity,” she says. “Every day, we are seeing an increase in interest and in motivation. It’s a huge boost for the community.”

Raise the Grade is a national educational program of Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada.